Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Greaghnafarna (drumahaire By., Yugan Ed), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greaghnafarna (drumahaire By., Yugan Ed)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 54.17124, -8.00222
- SMR number
- LE018-032001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. It is called St Brigid's Well and is renowned for the cure of toothache (Clancy and Forde 1980, 7-8). A cleft in the bedrock (diam. 0.22m; D 0.5m) forms the well and nearby is a pilgrim's cairn (dims 5m NE-SW; 3.3m NW-SE; H c. 0.3m). The well is still venerated.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
Clancy, E. and Forde, J. 1980 Ballinaglera parish, Co. Leitrim: aspects of its history and tradition. Ballinaglera. Authors.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.